New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-06-15
FARM MANAGEMENT.
Late Crops that Can Be Advan-
tageously Raised to Take
the Place Of Hay.
Farmers Should Take the Management Of
County Fairs Into Their Own Hands.
In View of a Drought.

spect to maturity grass and red clover
are fully two weeks further advanced
than they ordinarily are at this time.
Still in most fields they are but a few
inches in height. Grass is no taller in
most moving fields and natural
meadows than it generally is in past
ures at this season of the year. Trees,
shrubs, and most kinds of Towering
plants blossomed fully two weeks be-
fore the ordinary time. The only good
quality of grass is found on low land,
which is ordinarily too wet to be plow-
ed. Clover and timothy on highly
MANFRED land present healthy APP
pearance, but are short. Even with
heavy rains within the next few days
the crop will be small. Apparently
ing must commence two weeks
earlier than usual if red clover, timothy,
and other cultivated grasses are cut as
Son as they are in full blossom. On
few farms will they furnish fodder
enough to keep the stock over the
winter. Should abundant rains occur
soon after haying, a second crop may
be cut in fields where the soil is rich
and retentive of moisture. But the
season is too far advanced and too un-
favorable to afford much promise of a
good crop of hay.
Seasons that are unfavorable to the
growth of grass and clover are also un-
favorable to a large growth of grain
straw and to the foliage of cornstalks.
From present appearances the straw of
grain sown last fall or early in the
spring will be short. Farmers located
where they can secure hay on land be-
longing to non-residents may be able
to obtain all they need for keeping their
stock, as generally much can be cut on
low lands. Farmers who live where
most of the land is under cultivation
will be most likely short of fodder, as
they generally keep as much stock as
they can provide food for during favor
able seasons. They should lose no time
in preparing to put in seed that will
produce crops that can be used as sub
stitutes for common hay. Those who
have silos or are so situated that they
can construct them will find no diff
Guilty in raising fodder corn for filling
them. If not planted till the middle OF
June, stalks of corn sufficiently large
to be converted into ensilage can be
raised before there is danger of frost.
The silo enables farmer to winter a
large amount of stock through search
ty of rain causes the yield of grass and
clover to be very small.
Farmers who have no silos and are
81 = situated that they ean construct
He 7 n raise corn for fodder and
presel 2 it by drying. Sweet corn is
preferable to any kind of field corn, as
it produces a much larger proportion
of foliage, while the stalks contain so
much saceharine matter that they are
readily eaten by most kinds of stock.
Many who wish to raise either sweet or
common field corn for fodder SOW the
seed broadcast. cover it with a harrow
OF cultivator, and cut it with moving
machine or grain-harZester. This plan
saves much work, and many claim that
the yield is largest when the crop is
raised in this way. It lis admitted,
however, that the crop is inferior.
The stalks are small and tender and
the foliage is abundant, but, as they
grow in the shade they are lacking in
green color and in sweetness. Those
who have fed out fodder corn rails
eG owing the seed broadcast are
gen. b. dissatisfied with the results.
They I art that animals soon tire of
it, and 1T they grow but very little if
allowed, other kind of food Fodder
corn raj, led in drills and cultivated is
of much better quality. Its foliage is
green and the stalks are much sweeter.
It is preferred by animals, who appear
to be the best Judges of the value OF
stock food.
Several sheep-raisers in Kansas have
reported faxorably on sorghum as a
- fodder plant. They recommend drill
ing in the seed at the rate of about a
peck to the acre. They cut it with i
machine and put it in shocks like corn.
stalks. One Kansas wool-grower states
that the sorghum raised on one acre
will keep twenty sheep through the win.
ter. He cuts up and puts in shock
half the crop for feeding during bac
weather, bat allows the sheep to ea
the rest from the hill when the weather
is favorable. Sorghum plants, When
stand droughts better than almost any
1llSSu 1Cl lOoOC1. liz CIOF
however, is better adapted to the sol
and climate of Kansas than to that Of
most of the northwestern states anG
territories. The small amount of snow
there allows of lis being eaten in the
field where it grew. Il is obviously
more valuable for sheep than for horses
and cattle. as they can eat the eseee
without injury In a part of the coun
try where the winters are mild, stool
hogs can run in the field. where they
!, will eat the seed Of sorghum and mos
of the leaves and stalks. In states fur
ther north the stocks will be frozer
during the winter if they were not Gov
cred with snow and ice. As conse
quence, they would be of little value te
any animal if they were not well pro
tected.
Everything considered, the variey O
millet popularity known as Hun gariar